🇬🇧 Complete chaos in the UK: Sunderland police station set on fire amid protests over Southport stabbing https://t.co/f1eUc5DEzn pic.twitter.com/CrxEd0EVnq

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 2, 2024

Sunderland this evening…..

The building on fire looks to be the police station. This is part of the ongoing protests over the stabbings in Southport.pic.twitter.com/8Ll2lMfTSb

— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) August 2, 2024

Looks like Starmers speech has succeeded only in inflaming community tensions. He needs to walk this back.

His robotic speech completely lacking in empathy and understanding has made everything worse.

More unrest in Sunderland now. pic.twitter.com/Mk7a3ITxen

— Captain Benjamin 🐺 (@BenjaminDeRebel) August 2, 2024

Previously: UK: Starmer Announces New “Violent Disorder” Unit, Mass Censorship, Destruction of Anti-Stabbing Movement

I wonder about “injured cops.”

This is sort of like the first time I watched soccer, and saw the players faking injuries.

These cops are heavily armored, so unless these anti-stabbing protesters are using puncturing melee weapons, I don’t really see how cops could be “hospitalized” by protesters.

If the protesters were ripping the cops’ helmets off and kicking them in the head, there would be videos of that.

Anyway – Starmer is going to be one of these “brief” PMs because of this crisis. Going out there and announcing he was forming a pro-child-stabbing force to stop the anti-child-stabbing movement was heinous and dumb.

The Guardian:

Eight people have been arrested in Sunderland for offences including violent disorder and burglary after another night of rioting and disorder in parts of the UK.

Three police officers were taken to hospital after being injured, Northumbria police added.

At least one building was reportedly set on fire, and a car was also overturned and set alight as police struggled to control a crowd of several hundred protesters.

Some of the protesters wore balaclavas and some were draped in the England flag, with police officers being hit with beer cans and stones in the city centre and a nearby mosque on St Mark’s Road.

The balaclavas are out, boy.

This war is well under way.

Posting on social media about the building on fire, Nick Lowles, from the organisation Hope Not Hate, said: “A far right and racist protest has culminated in this. Shame on all those who continue to excuse these protests.”

It was initially reported that a police building had been set on fire but later reports suggested an adjacent building was instead set alight.

An overturned car was set on fire and rioters set off fire extinguishers against officers.

These Brits are going full-Irish.

I have to say: I am not unimpressed.

It’s Sunderland tonight, it’s the entire country tomorrow.
There’s only so far you can push the British people until they fight back 💥💥 pic.twitter.com/fJWKm0ClJ3

— Ashlea Simon (@AshleaSimonBF) August 2, 2024

I think the soundtrack of the anti-stabbing revolution should be The Smiths’ “Panic.”

I never get my way with these soundtrack picks.

But I’m sure someone will at least start setting the riot footage to that song.

And that’s really what we care about: the videos we get of violence.

“The law must be upheld everywhere.”

Sir Keir Starmer announces plans for a national policing unit to put an end to “violent disorder”.
https://t.co/5tu9rX3JV3

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— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 1, 2024

“Will what you’re announcing today actually increase the number of police officers on the street?”@PGMcNamara asks Sir Keir Starmer if the government will fast-track the recruitment of police officers – after he announced a new unit to “tackle violent disorder”. pic.twitter.com/INmSi4sw2y

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) August 1, 2024

Previously: UK: Over 100 Arrested in London After Protests Over Southport Stabbing Spread Across the Country

You can’t just… get angry about immigrants stabbing people.

It’s against the law.

The Guardian:

A “national capability” will be established to tackle violent disorder and rioters, Keir Starmer has announced, as he warned social media firms they had a responsibility to clamp down on misinformation.

Speaking after violent disorder followed the Southport stabbing attack, the prime minister said the initiative would “pull together” intelligence and action across the country’s police forces. This would range from “the immediate challenge, which is clearly driven by far-right hatred” and “all violent disorder” that flares, regardless of motivation.

Starmer appeared furious during a press conference on Thursday afternoon as he condemned the “tiny mindless minority in society … a gang of thugs [who] got on trains and buses, went to a community that is not their own, a community grieving the most horrific tragedy, and then proceeded to throw bricks at police officers – police officers who just 24 hours earlier had been having to deal with an attack on children in their community”.

He said the new plan was designed to show that Britain would “not allow understandable fear to curdle into division and hate in our communities and that will not permit, under any circumstances, a breakdown in law and order on our streets”. He added: “Let’s be very clear about this. It’s not protest. It’s not legitimate. It’s crime and violent disorder. An assault on the rule of law and the execution of justice.”

The “national capability” will aim to improve intelligence gathering and sharing on “extremist troublemakers” after police were surprised by the scale of disorder on Tuesday in Southport, with further unrest in London, Manchester, Hartlepool and Aldershot on Wednesday night.

Anti-stabbing speech is not free speech.

He should have just endorsed the protesters and then said “you know, you’re all right – we do need to help Israel fight Iran in order to end these stabbings.”

#BreakingNews: Kier Starmer assures Muslims all around the UK that he will do everything to ensure Muslims feel safe and that Mosques are safeguarded from far right extremist hooligans. #Southport pic.twitter.com/SuuTQvyFGw

— Q.I.B.L.A.H uncensored news (@QUNproductions) August 1, 2024